Acts 11:19-26 - Corps Notes - May 11, 1976
Acts 11:19-26 May 11, 1976 Go to Acts chapter 11 please. Acts 11:18 ended up with that great truth, “to the Gentiles also God had granted repentance unto life.” Acts 11:19 “now” – delete “they which were” – they indeed therefore “upon” – because of “arose about” – followed after “Stephen” – i.e. – his death “preaching the word” - You noticed wherever they went they preached the Word. The persecution was there and yet they continued to do what? Preach the Word. Persecution killed some of them, but in the blood of the believers--seemed like every time one was killed, four rose up to believe. I believe it was in last week’s issue of Newsweek, or one of those magazines, in the religious section there was an article about the persecution. I think it’s either Jehovah’s Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists, in one of the black countries in Africa. It mentioned the thousands of them that had been killed, executed. Yet in spite of all that, the growth of that particular denomination is phenomenal in that country. Here the persecution drove them out. They went to Cyprus. These islands and areas play a tremendous part in the outreach of God’s Word in the first century. But they preached the Word. “to none but unto the Jews only” - They still had a hang up. They shouldn’t have had it but they did. They’re just human beings; just like you and I have hang ups. It takes us sometimes a long time till the Word of God, which we know in our mind, really begins to live in our actions, in our outreach, in our real believing and moving; till we’re really convinced in the innermost part of our being that, that’s it. That’s what occurred to them, too. Acts 11:21 “hand of the Lord” - figure of speech – condescensio - the Lord was fighting for them; the Lord was working with them and for them. “a great number believed” - I think the words “great number” is “crowds” in the text. I forget exactly. Just a great number; just like, “crowds believed and turned unto the Lord.” Acts 11:22 “tidings” -
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Tweet Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 5-11-1976 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again that some of the thi